News articles tagged with 'frequency' (Page 11)
NIST develops test method for key micromechanical property
— 11 Jan 2008 19:22 | PhysicsEngineers and researchers designing and building new microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) can benefit from a new test method developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology…
Scientists generate frequency comb with microresonators on a chip
— 19 Dec 2007 18:00 | PhysicsThe frequency comb technique invented at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany, has influenced and advanced basic research as well as laser development…
Towards the quantum standard of electric current
— 12 Dec 2007 21:09 | PhysicsResearchers at Low Temperature Laboratory and Laboratory of Physics (TKK) and at University of Stony Brook (New York) have potentially solved the problem of accurately defining the…
High Q nanowires may be practical oscillators
— 2 Dec 2007 17:51 | PhysicsNanowires grown at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have a mechanical 'quality factor' at least 10 times higher than reported values for other nanoscale devices…
Trapped rainbow: New technique to slow down, stop and capture light
— 15 Nov 2007 14:00 | PhysicsProfessor Ortwin Hess, his PhD student Kosmas Tsakmakidis of the Advanced Technology Institute and Department of Physics at the University of Surrey and Professor Alan Boardman from…
MIT works toward smart optical microchips
— 3 Nov 2007 03:50 | PhysicsA new theory developed at MIT could lead to 'smart' optical microchips that adapt to different wavelengths of light, potentially advancing telecommunications, spectroscopy and remote…
The smallest radio uses single nanotube to pick up good vibrations
— 31 Oct 2007 22:50 | PhysicsPhysicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have built the smallest radio yet - a single carbon nanotube one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair that requires only…
Researchers studying how singing bats communicate
— 18 Oct 2007 18:42 | BiologyBats are the most vocal mammals other than humans, and understanding how they communicate during their nocturnal outings could lead to better treatments for human speech disorders,…
MIT finds new hearing mechanism
— 11 Oct 2007 18:47 | BiologyMIT researchers have discovered a hearing mechanism that fundamentally changes the current understanding of inner ear function. This new mechanism could help explain the ear's remarkable…